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Originally Posted by JakeCroxton:
From Jim Morrison
Not sure how fun this was but remember at Knoxville Nationals about 1998 watched as the clouds stacked up to the west on a hot and very humid day. Perfect for creating a tornado. As day turned to night, a few rain drops began to fall and then even more and it got real chilly. About that time, sirens started going.
A videographer from California looked at me and asked what it was. Told him it was a tornado siren. He said, "They don't come out at night, do they?"
Said I guess he'd never seen the move "Twister", which includes tornadoes at night.
He also asked what he should do, to which I said we don't stay here.
In hte press room, we learned there was a tornado directly over Knoxville that had actually touched down outside of town. Races for the night -- I believe it was Friday -- were postponed to Sunday afternoon, which was kinda weird since the qualifying races for the Saturday night final were ran Sunday afternoon. Don't remember exactly how they remedied that.
It was Saturday nite that it happened so they ran it on Sunday